"copyright" tag (sorted by SiNergy)

Porn producers from the United States and Japan demand more attention given to illegally downloaded porn material in South Korea. As one of the highly wired countries in the world, the porn producers are worried over the high volume of their content being pirated in the country.

In a rather alarming bit of business, porn purveyor Perfect10.com has sued Google yet again after the company has found not-so-free images in its Google Images. The class suit was filed in Canadian court last week and is currently pending. Perfect10.com is saying that Google was colluding with infringement sites that carry pirated material and earns money out of them through Adsense.

GEMA - trade organization that is the German copyright counterpart of the RIAA -- has
increased pressure on popular file sharing site Rapidshare.com for their inability to
weed out content piracy in their site. Rapidshare insists that it has beefed efforts

$32M For Helping Sell Louis Vuitton Fakes!

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After issuing numerous warnings to stop selling counterfeit bags and accessories, Louis Vuitton Malletier S.A. finally had enough of these numerous online vendors and decided to hit them where it will hurt the most: by going after the two California companies who hosts their sites.

Don't you wave that Safe Harbor crap at me!, screams Universal Music Group as it sued popular tube site Veoh.com with copyright ownership infringement. The music conglomerate seeks liabilities from the site after it was reportedly showing pirated UMG produced music videos. But the court decided otherwise.

Burning Man Says Yes To Flashing But Just Not Online

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The Burning Man festival may have been a boon for tit lovers in the Internet. But that might be a thing of the past. Because starting this year, the organizers are putting a stop to publishing nude photographs of topless women during the festivities in adult websites.

Digital Watermarking May Be Answer to Piracy

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I read this study that was recently released by the Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) and found it not only very interesting, but also hopeful that the answer to the war on piracy is on the horizon. The study was focused on whether the inclusion of Digital Serial Numbers (DSNs) in online content would discourage illegal file sharing.

Google Sued Over Trademarked Keyword Ads

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Google is being sued over its allowance of advertising triggered by search terms containing a competitor's trademark. Software company FPX filed the federal class-action lawsuit against Google claiming it had violated its trademark. FPX is also contesting Google's advertising and trademark policy on behalf of all Texas trademark owners.

ISPs Grow a Backbone

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I had posted a story awhile back talking about how U.S. ISPs were going along with RIAA’s plan for a three-strikes-and-you’re-cut-off policy and the fact that some big ISPs were already testing it out. Well it sounds like the ISPs are rebelling against the RIAA, at least when it comes to this policy, saying cut-offs would only happen by court order and not told to do so by the RIAA.

The DOJ has sided with a Recording Industry Association of America lawsuit, giving the OK to high fines per music track downloaded. The DOJ is defending their decision by stating it’s the public who suffers from piracy (lost jobs & wages, lost tax revenue, etc.) However, I find this decision to side with the RIAA a little fishy since two of the top DOJ lawyers are former RIAA attorneys.